Can someone help me with this?

[Devaskyla]

I'm having a discussion about vaccines and someone posted this link, http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#tox which seems to be claiming that ethylmercury is different from methylmercury and that because of the difference, it isn't known if ethylmercury is toxic. Anyone got any gov't/medical journal links which say otherwise?

[Deborah]

Weird approach. You keep injecting children, babies and pregnant ladies with a form of mercury because you aren't sure it is as toxic as the kind of mercury you know is toxic?

How about they prove it is really safe, first?

[mamakay]

Originally Posted by Deborah

How about they prove it is really safe, first?

But vaccines are healthy, Deborah. Like vitamins. If you put mercury in a vaccine, it becomes an essential nutrient.

[Deborah]

Originally Posted by mamakay

But vaccines are healthy, Deborah. Like vitamins. If you put mercury in a vaccine, it becomes an essential nutrient.

Oh. I didn't understand the logic. I have problems that way.: Thanks for sorting it out.

[mamakay]

No problem.

[Proverbs31]

This link may help:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/thimerosal.htm

[Devaskyla]

Thanks! Not quite what I was looking for, but it seems the research I wanted hasn't really been done. Better site than I'd been able to hunt down.

[Proverbs31]

Yeah, even after being in childhood vaccines for 70ish years, they still don't have guidlines for what quantity of ethyl mercury is deemed "safe". :